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President Obama praised abortion-rights activists and marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, in a video shown on Tuesday night at the NARAL Pro-Choice America annual dinner in Washington, D.C. Stephanie Cutter, the President's former deputy campaign manager, delivered the keynote at the dinner at the Washington Hilton hotel, where the group also welcomed its new president, Ilyse Hogue.

"Tonight, we celebrate the historic Roe v. Wade decision handed down 40 years ago, but we also gather to recommit ourselves to the decision’s guiding principle: that women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care, " President Obama said, according to a video transcript published in The Washington Post.